Libs with applications

[Steve Grubb]

On Sunday, November 20, 2011 02:14:09 PM drago01 wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> > Steve Grubb wrote:
> >> For example, if a 32 bit library is installed, which application is left
> >> - the 64 or 32 bit one?
> > 
> > If you install ONLY the 32-bit multilib, the 32-bit version.
> > If you install BOTH the 64-bit and 32-bit packages, the 64-bit version
> > (on all the platforms where 64-bit is preferred, which includes x86_64
> > and now also ppc64).
> > If you install ONLY the 64-bit package, the 64-bit version.
> 
> Yeah which means there isn't really a problem here.

Well, yeah there is the other problem of dependencies and getting a smaller minimal 
install. For example, libnotify.

# ldd /usr/bin/notify-send | wc -l
44
# ldd /usr/lib64/libnotify.so.1.2.3 | wc -l
12

or how about libmsn
# ldd /usr/bin/msntest | wc -l
20
# ldd /usr/lib64/libmsn.so.0.3.0 | wc -l
9

I didn't test all of them, but the extra dependencies are unneeded.

-Steve